Noble fathers have noble children.
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
All men know their children mean more than life.
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
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